DAILY SNEWS / Flavors
ZYN Spearmint Mini vs Slim: 3, 6 and 9 mg, and the Two Cans That Are Secretly Spearmint
ZYN Spearmint Mini at 3 or 6 mg and the Slim at 6 or 9 compared on pouch, flavor and release, with which to...
The Blueberry Bench: Six Cans, Three Brands, and the Fruit That Keeps Getting Drafted
Six blueberry pouches from 6 mg to 30 mg compared: ZYN Cool Blueberry Mini and Slim, ZYN Blueberry Mint, VELO Berry Forest, and Pablo...
The Watermelon Face Off: Four Cans, Three Brands, and Apparently Watermelon Has to Be Cold
Four watermelon pouches from three brands compared: ZYN Cool Watermelon Mini (6mg) and Slim (11mg), VELO Wintery Watermelon (14mg) and Pablo Exclusive Strawberry Watermelon...
The Fall Swap: Retiring the Summer Rotation, September Through November
How to change your pouch rotation for fall, September through November: tropical drops to one can, citrus becomes a reset between flavors, ZYN Coffee...
The Flavor Stopwatch: Which Pouches Fade First
How long pouch flavor lasts depends more on the flavor type, moisture and format than on the brand. This post covers how mint, tropical,...
The Heat Check: The Three Cans That Actually Bite Back
Three spicy pouches, each hot in its own way: Pablo Red (cool mint over chili, 24 mg), ZYN Guava Spice (ripe guava with a...
The Apple Face-Off: ZYN Apple Mint vs Iceberg Double Apple
ZYN Apple Mint Mini, ZYN Apple Mint Slim and Iceberg Double Apple compared: which is the most apple-forward, the freshest and the most complex,...
Tailgate Cans: A Football-Season Field Guide
How to handle pouches at a tailgate: keep the can out of the heat and the cooler, pick a flavor that works at a...
Pablo Makes Four Strawberry Cans. None Are Just Strawberry.
Pablo's four strawberry flavors (Strawberry Kiwi, Watermelon, Lychee and Cheesecake, all 30 mg) compared on flavor: what the second flavor adds in each, which...
The First Pouch Lies: How to Actually Judge a New Can
How to judge a new pouch flavor without writing it off in ten seconds: score it from pouch two or three, wait out the...
The Tropical Advisory: It Is Either a Drizzle or a Hurricane
All eight tropical pouches we've carried, ranked, from 3 mg ZYN Tropical to five 30 mg Pablo Exclusives, with nothing at all between 11...
'Ice' Is Not a Flavor: What the Cold Words on the Can Actually Mean
What Cool, Icy, Ice, Frost and Freezing mean on a pouch can, using cans we stock: the kind of cold each word signals, why...
The Citrus Court: Every Citrus Pouch We Stock, Judged
ZYN Citrus Mini, ZYN Citrus Slim, Iceberg Energy and Pablo Exclusive Lemonade: four citrus cans from three brands that cover our whole strength range,...
The Berry Bracket: Every Berry Nicotine Pouch We Stock, Ranked
Five berry pouches from four brands, compared: ZYN Red Berry Fizz, ZYN Blueberry Mint, VELO Berry Forest, Iceberg Sour Berries and Pablo's 30 mg...
Five Cans Getting Us Through July
The five cans we kept reaching for in July (Iceberg Sour Berries, ZYN Cool Watermelon Mini, White Fox Original, VELO Polar Mint and Pablo...
Nicotine Pouches and Coffee: A Field Report
How to pair a nicotine pouch with coffee: finish the cup before the pouch goes in, which flavors go well with coffee (ZYN Coffee,...
The Cherry Depth Chart: One Flavor, Six Cans
Six cherry pouches from a gentle 3 mg to 30 mg, sorted by strength: ZYN Black Cherry Mini and Slim, Iceberg Cherry and three...
Flavor Fatigue Is Real. Build a Rotation.
Your favorite can starts to taste flat after a few weeks of daily use because your sense of smell gets used to it. Rotating...
The Cookout Can: A Fourth of July Field Guide
Which pouch flavors hold up at a Fourth of July cookout, which ones clash with the food, how to handle the can at a...
The Grape Test: One Flavor, Four Cans, No Mercy
I tried our four grape pouches side by side over two days: VELO Purple Grape, Iceberg Grape Gum, Pablo Gold Grape Ice and Pablo...
Hot-Weather Pouches: What Actually Tastes Right When It's 95 Out
ZYN's cool fruit flavors and Citrus, VELO Tropical Ice and Wintery Watermelon, and Pablo Exclusive fruits for heavy users all hold up in the...
The Candy Counter: Every Sweet-Tooth Pouch We Stock, Sorted From Safe to Sneaky
Every sweet pouch we carry, from Iceberg's 12mg Gummy Bears and bubblegum flavors to Pablo's 30mg Bubblegum and Strawberry Cheesecake, with what's available now...
The Drinks Menu: Every Pouch We Stock That Tastes Like a Beverage
Every pouch we stock that tastes like a drink, in order of strength: ZYN Coffee at 6mg and 11mg, Iceberg Energy at 12mg, and...
VELO Names Its Mints Like Weather Reports. Here's the Forecast.
We stock eight VELO flavors, four mints and four fruit, and this post goes through what each one tastes like and which strengths it...